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ROSES AND THORNS.
An Old Eastern Legend and Its ApplI
cation to Human Life.
j This world we're living in
i Is mighty hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every rose,
1 But ain't the roses sweet?
There is an eastern legend that when
the beneficent Creator prepared the
earth for man, causing it to bring
forth herbs and trees pleasant to the
eye and good for food, each bearing
Its seed within itself for propagating
Its kind, the roses had no thorns and
the lilies, violets and other blossoming
plants were free from thistles, bram
bles and noxious weeds.
But the sons and daughters of men
fn their greedy, eagerness to gather the
flowers, each one selfishly striving to
secure a larger share than his fellow,
seemed likely to despoil the earth of
its beauty and leave not even enough
blossoms to perfect their seed and per
petuate their species. So the kindly
All Father provided the roses with
thorns for self protection and sent a
host of defenders of the more tender
blossoms by causing thistles and briers
to spring up around them like wardens
of a castle or the bodyguard of a
queen. And this is the reason for the
thorns and briers nature's protection
against human greed.
The legend has a wider application.
The roses typify the pleasures of life
and the thorns its pains. A life of
ease and pleasure was not only use
less, but satiating. It would demoral
ize him who indulged in it. Satiety
despoils the rose of its beauty and the
violet of its fragrance; hence kind na
ture makes true pleasure the reward
of virtuous effort and punishes over
indulgence with penalizing suffering,
to the end that greed may be. restrain
ed and self control developed with its
attendant virtues of temperance, kind
liness, industry and thrift John B.
Stoll in South Bend Times.
' FOES TO SUCCESS.
Don't Be a Victim of Timidity, Shyness
or Self Consciousness.
Timidity, shyness and self conscious
ness belong to the same family. We
usually find all where we find any one,
and they are all enemies of peace of
mind, happiness and achievement. No
one has ever done a great thing while
his mind was centered upon himself.
We must lose ourselves before we can
find ourselves. Self analysis is valu
able only to learn our strength; it is
fatal If it makes us dwell upon our
weaknesses. -
Timid, shy people are morbidly self
conscious. They think too much about
themselves. Their thoughts are turn
ed inward; tbey are always analyzing,
dissecting themselves, wondering how
they appear and what people think of
them. If these people could only for
get themselves and think of others
they would be surprised to see what
freedom, ease and grace they would
gain, what success in life they would
achieve.
Thousands of young people are held
back from undertaking what they long
to do and are kept from trying to make
real their great life dreams because
they are afraid to Jostle with the
World. They shrink from exposing
their sore spots and sensitive points
which smart from the lightest touch.
Their supersensitiveness makes cow
ards of them. O. S. Marden in Success
Magazine.
A Congregation of One.
' In his younger days the Rev. Sir
Cameron Lees, D. D.', was a highland
missloner in a scattered territory and
passing rich on 40 a year. On one
occasion on the Sabbath day the win
dows of heaven opened and there was
a deluge u ;i siiuiir scare, xne young
minister of eourst was at his post, but
only one member of the congregation
had the courage to turn up, an old
farmer. Cameron I.ees suggested that
in view of tin terrible weather they
should adjourn to his study and bold
their devotions there.
"No. no." said the old Highlander.
"It is written, "Where two or three are
gathered together in my name there
am 1 also.' You are one and I'm one,
so there's the two. and we'll have the
service as usual." And there was a
service for a congregation of one.
London Globe.
A CURIOUS DREAM.
Warning That Came to a Granddaugh
ter of Sir Walter Scott.
An instance In which a dream was
useful in preventing an impending ca
tastrophe is recorded of a daughter of
Wts. Rutherford at Ederton, the grand
daughter of Sir Walter Scott This
lady dreamed more than once that her
mother had been murdered by a black
servant She was so much upset by
this that she returned home, and, to
her great astonishment and not a lit
tle to her dismay, she met on entering
the house the very black servant she
had met in her dream. He had been
engaged In her absence. She prevail
ed upon a gentleman to watch In an.
adjoining room during the following
night
About 3 o'clock in the morning the
gentleman heard footsteps on the
stairs, came out and met the servant
carrying some coals. Being question
ed as to where he was going, he
answered confusedly that he was go
ing to mend the mistress' fire, which
at 3 o'clock in the morning In the mid
dle of summer was evidently impossi
ble. On further investigation a strong
knife was found hidden in the coals.
The lady escaped, but the man was
subsequently hanged for murder, and
before his execution he confessed that
he intended to assassinate Mrs. Ruth-,
erford. London Standard.
GRAND CANYON.
An Ideal Place In Which to Realize the
Insignificance of Man.
There Is one place In this country
where a man can step back not by
hundreds but by thousands of years,
back to the time when the continent
was in the making. This place is the
Grand Canyon of Arizona. There the
visitor sees a panorama In a million
colors as the mists gather about the
rugged peaks and the sunlight glistens
on the metallic deposits of the cliffs.
A whole chaotic world discloses Itself.
Rock forms of uncanny beauty stand
out on those unrivaled cliffs, and far
down runs the river channel.
Stand on some ledge and realize the
insignificance of man when compared
with the handicraft of nature, watch
a party of travelers threading their
way down some winding trail that
clings to the great wall and see them
grow smaller and smaller until they
become mere specks in the great rift,
then some idea is gained of this won
derful place. Yet the canyon Is so
symmetrical and so unlike anything
else that it is with difficulty that one
can acquire any notion of its immen
sity. Niagara poured in would hardly
have the dignity of a mountain stream.
New York Sun.
Worldly Wisdom.
"Now that my engagement to Edgar
Is broken off 1 wonder if be will ask
me to return the Jewels that he gave
me."
"If he doesn't ask for them I'd send
Ihem back at once, for In that case
they're not genuine!" Fliegende Blat
ter. ... . ... : . .
